Song Kang-ho

Gang Dong-won

Bae Doona

Lee Joo-young

Lim Seung-soo

Park Ji-yong

Song Sae-byuk

Kim Sun-young

Lee Moo-saeng

Lee Dong-hwi

Kim Sae-byuk

Baek Hyun-jin

Oh Hee-jun

Ryu Kyung-soo

Jong Ho

Seong Yu-bin

Park Kang-seop

Kim Keum-soon

Kang Gil-woo

Kim Yae-eun

Park Hae-jun

Jung Ji-woo

Ryu Ji-an

Yun Seul

Jang Hye-min

Jeong Jong-yeol

Jung Ah-young

Lee Ye-seo

Choi Hee-jin

Lee Do-goon

Kim Do-yeon

Choi Hyo-sang

Kang Min-ji

Lee Ga-kyung

Yang Gwon-seok

Lee Doo-seok

Yoon Sang-hak

Lee Do-gyoo

Lee Yoo-joo

Kang Gyoo-rin

Kim Joo-eun

Lim Ga-Young

Woo Sung-min

Choi Yoon-woo

Jung Hyuk

Lee Dong-hyeon

Kim Yoon-ho

Kim Do-yeop

Song Ji-ho

Kim Soo-ji

Park Jong-hyeon

Jeon Sun-ho

Park Yeong-joon

Hwang Do-yoon

Kim Da-na

Kim Soo-hyeon

Bae Ga-jin

Kim Jin-ah

Son Yeong-ok

Jeong Myeong-yeon

Sin Chae-rin

Park Geon-woo

Choi Gi-sang

Park Byeong-gwan

Na Gyeong-cheol

Lee Ga-eun

Hong Kyung-pyo

Park Cheong-woo

Baek Sang-hoon

Choi Tae-young

Eun Hee-soo

Jung Do-ahn

Kwak Tae-yong

Choi Se-yeon

Shinsuke Fujimoto

Yoon Hye-joon

Hwang Hyo-kyun

Miky Lee

Kang Ho-sung

Lee Jeong-hyeon

Lee Beom-seok

Lee Gi-seok

Lee Eugene

Song Dae-chan

Miyuki Fukuma

Kim Seo-young

Jung Jae-il

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Ryu Yeon

Im Jong-hyeok

Choi Wun-jin

Jo Gyeong-gyu

You Cheong

Park Jun-yong

Kim Man-geun

Park Jin-young

Yang Hye-jin

Anfernee Kim

Lee Si-hun

Kim Jin-yeong

Kim Kyeong-mo

Kim Seong-hwan

Shin Kyung-chul

Kim Dong-kyu

Kim Sung-ho

Park Yong-gyu

Lee Mok-won

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Zip Cinema

CJ Entertainment

South Korea

한국어/조선말

Broker

baby

adoption

investigation

broker

road trip

family relationships

road movie

abandoned baby

busan, south korea

baby box

It's a good movie. I found it difficult to pull in all the nuances of the story line. There were several different lines of conflict going on and it all was not made clear. I can't tell if the fault is the screenplay or direction.

CinemaSerf

This actually starts off with rather a sad indictment of modern society. The church in Busan has a "deposit your unwanted children" box. It's all heated with a jingling toy inside, but it seemed slightly surreal to think that a mother would turn up and leave her child for the church to care for. It's exactly that, however, that "Moon So-young" (Ji-eun Lee) does and it shortly afterwards, part-time employee "Dong-soo" (Gang Dong-won) deletes the video evidence and takes the child to his laundry-owning friend "Ha Sang-hyun" (Some Kang-ho). Now on the face of it, we think they are going to look after the child, but pretty soon we realise that they have far more commercial plans for this offspring. These plans looks kyboshed, though, when the mother returns to collect her child after a night of soul-searching, and the church can find no trace of the bairn. The two "brokers" conclude that it is better to tell her what happened - and hope that she believes they were acting in the best interests of the child... Meantime, two police officers are shadowing the mother and the pair with a view to an arrest for child trafficking. Add to the mix the un-related (or is it?) murder of a man in a nearby hotel and we have the ingredients for a quickly paced and amusing crime drama that is well written and characterised by the adults - and by the mischievous and very observant young orphanage escapee "Hae-jin" (Seung-soo Im). As they travel the length and breadth of the country looking for clients, they try to stay one step ahead of the increasingly involved detectives whose plans to apprehend them they successfully - if almost entirely unwittingly - manage to thwart until, well you can guess the ultimate conclusion. This is an entertaining story that knits threads of friendship, loyalty, hope and despair, comedically, but potently. Each character has their own story and also an abiding decency that though venally motivated at times, still demonstrates a degree of integrity. These guys are not just going to sell the kid to a sweat shop! It offers some food for thought, this film, without pontificating or moralising and there is loads of on screen chemistry from the characters who work well together on this most curious of road movies. Well worth a watch.

Broker( 2022)

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Written by badelf on Wed Sep 28 2022

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